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Friday, August 24, 2012

PD Opportunity: COETAIL course here in Singapore

There are six places left on a new COETAIL course starting Sept 1 here in Singapore, out of the Center for International Education at UWCSEA East in Tampines.

What is COETAIL?

The
Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy(CoETaIL)
was developed by Jeff Utecht and Kim Cofino, Google Apps EDU Certified Trainers
and Apple Distinguished Educators. CoETaIL is based on best practice
student-centered online learning theories and techniques harnessing the newest
and latest in Web 2.0 technologies. The program leads educators through a
process demonstrating how to use technologies and allowing educators to apply
their learning in their own school and classroom. The
full certificate program requires five courses (15 credits) administered by Buffalo State, SUNY.

Participants
in the program can also apply those credits towards the Buffalo State, SUNY
Master’s degree in Multidisciplinary Studies program. Numerous national as well
as over 1000 international educators are currently enrolled in this degree
program designed for internationally-minded educators. The degree requires 30
graduate semester credits and 15 of those credits can be earned through
completion of the CoETaIL.

Participants
have the option to complete the CoETaIL regardless of whether they choose to
continue with a Master’s degree. This is advantageous to those educators who
would like to earn credits for licensure renewal or certification purposes in
the U.S., Canada as well as many other countries in the world.

Educators
who have been awarded the CoETaIL can continue their Master’s degree program by
completing five additional courses (15 graduate credits). The two required
courses, EDF 689 Methods and Techniques of Educational Research (action
research) and EDU 690 Master’s Project (culminating curriculum or other
research-based project) are offered as on-line courses.

It runs over a year and the cost is S$ 3,999 (roughly SGD $800 per course and there are 5 courses -- so hopefully your school might be willing to sponsor you)